The Church and the Rebellion: A Consideration of the Rebellion Against the Government of the United States; and the Agency of the Church, North and South, in Relation TheretoDerby & Miller, 1864 - 562 pages |
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... duty , 202 ; Duty of the South- ern Church the same , 204 . CONTENTS . xi CHAPTER VI . CLERICAL DISLOYALTY IN LOYAL X CONTENTS .
... duty , 202 ; Duty of the South- ern Church the same , 204 . CONTENTS . xi CHAPTER VI . CLERICAL DISLOYALTY IN LOYAL X CONTENTS .
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... duty , 248 ; Ministers to preach subjection , 249 ; Omission of this duty a sin , 250 ; The crowning guilt , 251 ; Disloyalty punishable by the State , 252 ; What Loyalty and Disloyalty are , 253 ; Disloyalty punishable by the Church ...
... duty , 248 ; Ministers to preach subjection , 249 ; Omission of this duty a sin , 250 ; The crowning guilt , 251 ; Disloyalty punishable by the State , 252 ; What Loyalty and Disloyalty are , 253 ; Disloyalty punishable by the Church ...
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... duty . This remedy is deemed justifiable in extreme cases , and a right which a people can never surrender . The pro- priety of resorting to it must , for the most part , be deter- mined by the circumstances of each case . In a popular ...
... duty . This remedy is deemed justifiable in extreme cases , and a right which a people can never surrender . The pro- priety of resorting to it must , for the most part , be deter- mined by the circumstances of each case . In a popular ...
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... duty to treat the institutions of the South as a crime , and themselves as enemies , to be sur- rounded and kept in subjection . Upon that question I now say nothing . But , manifestly , the alternative is , that all this is wrong , and ...
... duty to treat the institutions of the South as a crime , and themselves as enemies , to be sur- rounded and kept in subjection . Upon that question I now say nothing . But , manifestly , the alternative is , that all this is wrong , and ...
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... duty has never been performed by them , while there is the most unquestionable evidence that the State was forced into honor and justice , is to accord to the South any necessary protection against the piratical policy of abolitionism ...
... duty has never been performed by them , while there is the most unquestionable evidence that the State was forced into honor and justice , is to accord to the South any necessary protection against the piratical policy of abolitionism ...
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Page 6 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 289 - The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Page 49 - Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas ; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man ; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This our new government is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 423 - God shouted for joy, but my mind was carried back to him, who, '• though he was rich, yet for our sakes became poor, that we through his poverty might be made rich.
Page 6 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 436 - The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to his worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Page 13 - I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution— which amendment, however, I have not seen— has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service.
Page 435 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Page 290 - I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God besides me : I girded thee, though thou hast not known me : That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none besides me. I am the Lord, and there is none else. I form the light and create darkness : I make peace, and create evil : I the Lord do all these things.
Page 294 - For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.